Chapter 16

Teagan's Point of View

There was no way in hell that I would ever go back there. Not a single chance.

I had endured too much. Seen too much.

Years spent behind a glass window just staring out at the world beyond whilst I stagnated within my parents' house. Then the send-off into the world they had given Harland and I.

Yes, we had left of our own free will. But they hadn't given us an alternative.

Years' worth of being told I would never amount to anything, seeing as I was born with breasts and not a penis. Being groomed to fit whatever image they had imagined for me.

Finally, being pawed off on the closest male heir to a pack they could find.

It was high time that I let all of it go. To be the better person.

But now was not that time.

Maybe with therapy and a good ranting session, I could come to terms with seeing them again. Not tonight. Not in the next year. Time. I needed time to deal. Come to terms with everything that has taken place. Process all of it the way Harland h